Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [be] the same " in BNC.

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1 My husband was the same ; really squeamish about nappies and such .
2 You see , then , then my argument is the same , well , why give the Hockey Club five hundred pounds , and the Play Group only two fifty ?
3 I know , because my life was the same .
4 My answer 's the same as yours .
5 My day-dream is the same ; we should meet :
6 ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money .
7 And I was n't the only one I think all my family was the same .
8 Their skin is the same age .
9 And , I talked to other publishers erm , including a very large one which will be nameless and they have a pretty good spread and their experience was the same as ours .
10 Her hair was the same bright copper glow , and yet , below it , her face had collapsed in heavy folds , like cloth .
11 She peered anxiously into her six-foot-wide dressing-table mirror to see if any white hair showed after her last auburn tint , and found to her satisfaction that all her hair was the same improbable shade .
12 A pub like the Nag 's Head in Bishops Stortford , by E B Musman in 1935 , is in the modernist style of the London Underground , with curved ends and flat roofs , yet its ethos is the same rather high-mindedness of the earlier neo-Georgian style , with a wooden post on the roadside to carry the signboard .
13 The flame that sparkled in its heart was the same fire that had flared between them since the beginning .
14 This circle self-inverts ; that is , its inverse is the same circle .
15 finally they allow us to situate the different thresholds in their respective place : for nothing proves in advance … that their chronology is the same for all types of discourse …
16 Thus , its effect is the same in relation to a clause claiming to exempt the supplier from liability under the terms relating to description , quality or sample .
17 Brown and Levinson ( 1978 ) , who have studied politeness phenomena in widely diverse languages and cultures , suggest that their origin is the same in all societies .
18 Her laugh is the same as Crilly 's .
19 While these two strata took different paths , one working from within the tsarist regime and the other confronting it , their aim was the same : both sought forceful economic modernization of backward Russia , and both aspired to monopolize power over the distribution of wealth in the new society .
20 She read it carefully twice , but her conclusion was the same both times .
21 She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same .
22 It was better written than Cooper 's and , thankfully , in typescript , but its theme was the same : a passionate denial of having played any part in the , Luton murder at all .
23 Lady Belladonna 's utterance is tantamount to saying her age multiplied by her age multiplied by her age is the same as multiplying her age by four and then by five and finally by 45 .
24 They can be ‘ Labour ’ or ‘ Cooperative ’ or conscientious objectors when it suits , but whatever they disguise themselves as , their object is the same — to bring about a ‘ class war ’ …
25 Its value is about 0.00005 of that of the Earth , it is inclined about 12° from the spin axis , and its polarity is the same as that of the present Earth 's field .
26 The advantage of this approach is that , whatever the impedance of the source , the signal fed to the input of the attenuator following its insertion is the same as that fed to the load prior to insertion .
27 It has the advantage over membership that its significance is the same for different dates and denominations .
28 I mean in the sense that their objective is the same , then it 's the same organization .
29 But again her answer was the same .
30 Higher-order visual areas are also present in the rat , but it is unclear whether their organization is the same as in the monkey ( Espinoza and Thomas 1983 ) .
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